I want to count bright spots in a region on an image. How to do it ?
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There are images from microscope in which I need to count number of bright spots at some bright patches. Pls help.
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Rik
on 27 Nov 2017
What have you tried already? My first thought would be to try some form of edge detection to see if it is easy on such an image to define a threshold.
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Image Analyst
on 3 Dec 2017
Edited: Image Analyst
on 3 Dec 2017
Try taking the red or blue channel, which ever has more contrast. if you want the small, compact bright spots, then try using a top hat filter, imtophat().
I tried to do something with it, but it's a JPG image so the jpg block artifacts are very severe - so severe that they basically prevent image analysis of this image. Please post the non-lossy image, like a PNG, BMP, or TIFF version.
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Bshara Murr
on 27 Nov 2017
Edited: Bshara Murr
on 27 Nov 2017
I = imread('microscope.jpg');
gray = rgb2gray(I);
binaryImage = gray > 110;
imshow(binaryImage);
figure; imshow(I);
[labeledImage, numberOfCircles] = bwlabel(binaryImage);
numberOfCircles
I hope it does the job. You can change the threshold value(110 in my code) to what suites you. You can add a slider as well so you won't have to change it from your code.
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Can Koyuncu
on 29 Dec 2017
You can use hmaxima transformation. Luckly, Matlab has built-in function. Usage is as following: First convert image into gray scale. gray = rgb2gray(im); Then extract regional maxima whose depth is larger than 25. (You can play with the h value) regions = imextendedmax(gray, 25);
Ryan Comeau
on 15 Apr 2020
Hello, another technique that will maybe work is the use of regionprops. What you could do is, have RP return the brightest values on the image and then sort them yourself. If for example you require a specific shape, you can have RP return the Semi Major and semi Minor axis length for each region (look at the documentation, it's quite elaborate). Somthing like this maybe
image=imread('path/to/image');
imBW=imbinarize(image);
qq=regionprops(imBW,image,{'Centroids','MajorAxisLength','MinorAxisLength','MaxIntensity'});
for i=1:length(qq)
if qq(i).%conditions for bright circles(MajAL==MinAL, or use cicularity)
data_vault(i,:)=qq(i).Centroids
end
end
Hope this helps.
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